Eastern Sun, 5 January 1970

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    23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1227 Monday, 5 January 1970. ft MC(P) 1616 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Israel Raids Lebanon Takes 21 Prisoners
    540 1 TEL AVIV, Sun. (Reuter) —Israeli troops crossed the Lebanese frontier during the night and took 21 prisoners —lO of them soldiers —in retaliation for the kidnapping of an Israeli watchman from a border village. Lt. Gen. Haim Bar-Lev, Israeli Chief of Staff, described the
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    Lock icon U.K. Pilot Wins Race
    117 1 SYDNEY. Sun. (Reuter) A British-piloted BrittenNorman Islander aircraft ha? been declared provisional winner of the London to Sydney Air Race, officials announced here tonight. The plane was flown by Capt. W. Bright from Berkshire. England, who last week was also named the winner of the London
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    Lock icon Brown: Nasser Must Lead Peace Move
    224 1 CAIRO, Sun. (Reuter) —George Brown, Deputy Lender of the British Labour Party, today urged President Nasser to give a lead to the Arab states in seeking a Middle East Feace settlement. The former Foreign Secretary. addressing the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly,
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    Lock icon Ulster Trouble
    35 1 LONDONDERRY. Northern Ireland Sun. <UPI) Hooligans tossed rocks and bottle* at a British Array unit dispatched to stop a fracas at a dancehall in the bogside Roman Catholic district Sunday military officials said.
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    Lock icon ASPAC Centre In Bangkok
    150 1 BANGKOK, Sun. (UPI) The agreement to establish the Asian and Pacific Area Council's (ASPAC) Economic Centre (ECOCEN) in Bangkok in June has been approved by the ad hoc working group of ASPAC. a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said here today. He said the draft agreement
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    Lock icon Kerala Bomb
    76 1 NEW DELHI. Sun (UP!) Mohammed'Koya. Home and Education Minister of Kerala State, escaped with minor injuries when a communist worker threw a home-made bomb at him on Sunday. The Press Trust of India reported the man, whose name was given as Gangadhara. is a Communist Party Marxist <CPM>
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    Lock icon U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew (left) is seen reviewing an honour guard by Thai troops with Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn (hatless. second from right) on his arrival in Bangkok Saturday. At right is Air Chief Marshal Boonchoo Chandarubeksa, Commander in Chief of the Royal Thai Air Force. About 2,000 persons turned out at the airport to hear Agnew praise their country for the spirited fight Thailand is putting up against Communist guerrilla action.
    75 1 U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew (left) is seen reviewing an honour guard by Thai troops with Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn (hatless. second from right) on his arrival in Bangkok Saturday. At right is Air Chief Marshal Boonchoo Chandarubeksa, Commander in Chief of the Royal Thai Air Force. About 2,000 persons
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    Lock icon How The Israelis 'Stole' Radar Unit
    343 1 TEL AVIV, Sun. (AFP) —The Israeli press today published enthusiastic reports on the Israeli commando raid in Egypt on Dec. 26 which resulted in the capture of an ultra-modern Soviet-made radar system. Military authorities have shrouded the affair In a veil of secrecy, but
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    Lock icon Delegate Back
    64 1 SAIGON. Sun. (AFP) Pham Dang Lam. head of the south Vietnamese delegation at the Paris peace talks, arrived here today on "a routine visit" which he said would last "a week to to ten days". Lam, making his first trip back to Saigon in seven months, told newsmen
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    Lock icon Agnew Raps Those Who Turn Friends To Enemies
    357 1 BANGKOK, Sun. (UPI) —Vice President Spiro T. Agnew Sunday criticized Americans who may "make enemies of our friends" and promised that the United States will not back down on its commitments to Thailand and Southeast Asia. 'Some people back home are so
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    Lock icon Miss Aylward Dies At 68
    75 1 TAIPEI. Sun. (Reuter) British Missionary. Miss Gladys Aylward. famed in film and book, for her work among Chinese orphans for more than 40 years, died here at the age of 68. Miss Aylward. who became well-known as a symbol of faith overcoming difficulties, died at
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    Lock icon Indon Inquiry
    48 1 JAKARTA. Sun. (Reuter) President Suharto and his economic aides have discussed newspaper allegations of corruption involving tons of insecticide worth USST 11.000 Information Minister Budiardjo said today. The independent Jakarta paper Indonesia Raya has accused the President's assistant. Major Gen Surjo. of complicity In the case.
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    Lock icon Plane Losses
    59 1 SAIGON, Sun. (Reuter) The United States has lost 6.290 aircraft worth about 6.825 million dollars in nearly a decade of war in Vietnam. a military spokesman said today. The latest loss, the first of 1970. was a UH-1 helicopter shot down yesterday near Camau in the southern most
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    102 1 VUNG TAU. South Vietnam, Sun (Reuter) Australian soldiers heaved a sigh of e I li f a as^ e r^ p y f ship Jeparit docked here today with 1,632.000 cans of Australian beer on board. j«. The 8,000 troops based here had been fo ce to drink
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    Lock icon JAPAN TO REEVALUATE RELATIONS WITH PEKING
    522 3 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) Japan wants to open dialogue with Peking to improve relations between the two countries but not at the expense of Taiwan, Japanese Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi said in a New Year's Day symposium. Discussion on the SinoJapan relations, sponsored by the
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    Lock icon KILLED BY A GRENADE
    39 3 BANGKOK. Sun (Reuter)— A 59-year-old Chinese was killed in Thonubrui City across the ChaoPhraya river from Bangkok, when he picked uo a live hand grenade near his house and pulled its oin. police reoorted today.
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    Lock icon Agnew Begins His Talks In Bangkok
    248 3 BANGKOK, Sun. (UPI) U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, refreshed from the first break in formalities on his Far East tour, began discussions today on the role America will play in meeting military and economic com- miiTTients to Thailand. Agnew met with Prime Minister
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    Lock icon Save Tiger Campaign
    113 3 NEW DELHI. Sun. (Reuter) The tiger should be declared a protected animal for at least the next five years to save it from extinction, the executive committee of India's Wild Life Board recommended today. Meeting under the chairtranship of Dr. Karan Singh, Minister for Tourism and Civil
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    Lock icon New Year Revelry
    29 3 JAKARTA -Sun. <Reuter) Tw o people died and 49 injured by fire cracker s during the New Year celebration in Jakarta, a police spokesman •aid todav
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    Lock icon Investigator Makes House To House Visit At My Lai
    248 3 SAIGON, Sun. (UPI) An Army Lieutenant General probing the alleged My Lai massacre visited the hamlet near the northern coast for the first time yesterday and made a house-to-house inspection, U.S. military spokesmen said today. Wearing a steel helmet and a
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    Lock icon Russians To Be In 'Panorama'
    173 3 SYDNEY. Sun (UPI) The Russian Embassv Sunday confirmed the Soviet Union will be an exhibitor in the Panorama of the Pacific Exhibition in Sydnev this vear. Seventeen countries have now confirmed thev will take part in the Danorama during thp Royal Easter Show March 20-31.
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    Lock icon Heath Affirms Commitment
    121 3 SYDNEY Sun (UPI) British Conservative Party Leader Edward Heath reaffirmed Sunday his party's policy to retain a military force in Southeast Asia if the Conservatives won the next British election it would Join Australia. New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore in a five-power defence arrangement. The Labour government
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    Lock icon HK Catholics And The Pill
    141 3 HONG KONG. Sun. (Reuter) Contraceptive pills are gaining wider acceptance among the 236.000 Catholic population in Hong Kong. A comprehensive survey by the Catholic Society of the Hong Kong University published today shows that 50 per cent of Catholics do not think it is morally
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    Lock icon Reds Pound Village
    80 3 SAIGON. Sun. (UPl)—Communist gunners pounded two refugee settlements In South Vietnam's northern quarter with mortar barrages, killing 10 Vietnamese civilians and wounding 50 others Military spokesmen said today In the attacks early this morning. Red troops lobbed an estimated 40 82mm mortar rounds Into sloping the villages
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    Lock icon F-IIIC For Delayed Australia
    228 3 CANBERRA. Sun (UPI) Australia will not get Its first F-lllC aircraft at least until early May and a further delay In the delivery date is regarded as a distinct possibility. Government sources disclosed on Sunday that hopes of receiving six of the 24 flghter-bombers ordered from
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    Lock icon Preparing For Agnew
    49 3 KATMANDU. Sun. (UPI)— Communist elements are believed being rounded up to counter possible demonstrations when U.S. Vice Preyider.t Spir 0 T. Agnew visits Nepal on Monday, the English Daily Motherland said. The Motherland said police have a'readv taken sufficient precautions to foil demonstrations during Agnew's stay.
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    Lock icon E. German Guards Left Refugee Boy Bleeding
    125 4 EAST BERLIN. Sun. (Reuter) East Germany today condemned West German border guards who dragged a 17-year-old refugee to safety after his foot was blown off by a mine in a New Year's Ev e bid to cross into the west. The East German
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    Lock icon CHEAP AND EASY TO PRODUCE: Mini-H-Bomb War Possible
    284 4 PARIS, Sun. (Reuter) A top French military expert has warned of the possibility of a revolutionary hydrogen bomb, cheap enough for many countries to build and vastly increasing the risk of nuclear war. General Fernand Gambiez. Director of the Institute of Higher
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    Lock icon Cherbourg: Iraq Ship Sails With Arms
    230 4 PARIS, Sun. (UPI) An Iraqi freighter sailed last night from the port of Cherbourg carrying a cargo of 200 tons of French munitions. Port sources said the munitions were artillery shells destined for the Iraqi Persian Gulf port of Basra. The 5.700-ton freighter, •"Ramadan,"
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    Lock icon GINA'S DEBUT STIRS A FUR-or
    241 4 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Film star Gina Lollobriqida has upset wildlife authorities here with her collection of seven new fur coats, including a tiger maxi. "e estimate sne na s the rttirs of 250 animals." said an official of the World Wildlife Fund. "It must have
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    Lock icon Excuse For Being Alive
    71 4 PASADENA. California., Sun. (UPI) —The white-beard-ed official town greeter of Lacuna Beach, California, showed up at the tournament of roses Thursday "for the first time in 15 years" for two reasons "I wanted to sav hello to all my friends," said Eiler Larsen. 80. who was
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    Lock icon They Didn't Hear Or See
    61 4 WAIMEA, Hawaii, Sun. (UPI) While the employees of Waimea Airport were celebrating New Year's Eve, burglars took a safe out of the Hawaiian airlines office, dragged it to the middle of the main runway, blew it ooen and stole 1.500 U.S. dollars. Fortunately, there were
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    Lock icon Police Cars Banned
    41 4 GARY. Indiana. Sun. (UPI) —Garv policemen BT» making! do without half of their police cars because the auto* did not pass safety standards The 31 cars were found to be run down because <>* high mileage ann heavy wear
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    Lock icon Pornography Is A Form Of Harmless Sex Relief
    228 4 LONDON. Sun (Reuter) A t>lea for the legalisation of pornography so it could comfort sex-starved lonely people was made yesterday by the British publisher of the American sex novel. "Last Exit to Brooklyn John Calder told the Student Humanist Federation conference at
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    Lock icon Work To Save Pisa Tower Will Start Next Year
    229 4 PISA. Italy, Sun. (UPI) Work to shore up the leaning Tower of Pisa is likely to start in 1971 and last two years. Dr. Federico Tornar, President of the Pisa Cathedral Foundation, said Friday. Tornar said a government commission headed by
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    Lock icon Extremely Calculating
    96 4 SAN REMO, Italy, Sun (Reuter) One of the world's most successful roulette players visited the Casino here yesterday with his lawyer to demand the return of his membership card withdrawn after the Casino decided he was winning too much. Richard Jareck, a Polish-American psychology teacher at Heidelberg University,
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    Lock icon Arab Communists' Rise To Power In The Middle East
    657 4 BEIRUT, Sun. (Reufer) Several prominent Arab commurists rote to positions of power and influence in 1969 a year which saw socialist and progressive causes gaining ground in the Arab world. A cabinet reshuffle in Baghdad on the closing day of the
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    Lock icon The Missing Dentist And The Lost Dentures
    583 4  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: Several years ago my mother went to a dentist for a set of upper plates. They worked fine. Two months ago she began to have trouble with her remaining teeth so she went back to the same dentist. He
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    Lock icon HUSBAND'S PLEA TO KIDNAPPERS: 'Without Medical Attention, Mrs. McKay May Die'
    445 4 LONDON, Sun. (UPI) A distraught newspaper executive yesterday appealed to his ailing wife's kidnappers to contact him immediately because she may die without medical attention. Alex McKay, 60, told newsmen he had received no further news of or from
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    Lock icon Moon Dust Aids Plants To Grow
    421 5 NEW YORK, Sun. (UPI) Moon dust stimulates the growth of plants, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration botanist reported yesterday. Dr. Charles H. Aalkinshaw said he was assigned to find out whether lunar material could be harmful to earth plants and found instead as
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    Lock icon Human Rights Probers To Meet Today
    217 5 UNITED N/TIONS. Sun. (UPI) A group of experts meets Monday to Investigate complaints about alleged violations of human rights in Israeli-occupied Arab territories and in southern Africa. The group was established by the U.N. Human Rights Commission in 1967 to look into charges of
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    Lock icon Tremors May Aid Science
    120 5 MENXO PARK, Calif. Bun. fUFI> Two tiny tremors on the San Francisco peninsula were a scientific bonanza for earthquake researchers. quakes Friday night measured only 4.0 and 2.5 Intensity on the Richter scale but were centred right In the middle of a seismologlcal tracking net. T
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    Lock icon No Papers In Baltimore
    105 5 BALTIMORE. Md.. Sun YReuter* A strike by Printing Press Operators shut down all three daily newspapers here today. Affected by the walkout were the Baltimore Morning Sun and the Baltimore Evening Sun. which are both owned bv the Sunpapers. and the Battimore News-American an evening paper
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    Lock icon Confab On Crime
    66 5 WASHINGTON. Sun. 'Reuter> The Democratic Party S3ld today it would hold a national conference on crime here early this year because President Nixon had failed In his campaign promise to reduce crime. Th» chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Fred Harris, said despite the Republicans' campaign promise
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    Lock icon NGO CONG DUC, spokesman for about 20 angry members of the Vietnamese National Assembly, shook his fist angrily as he talked with newsmen. The group had walked out of the Assembly during the voting on whether to condemn three deputies for pro-Communist activity. The government-backed move was approved by a slim margin.
    54 5 NGO CONG DUC, spokesman for about 20 angry members of the Vietnamese National Assembly, shook his fist angrily as he talked with newsmen. The group had walked out of the Assembly during the voting on whether to condemn three deputies for pro-Commu-nist activity. The government-backed move was approved by a
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    Lock icon Proximire Raps Defence Expenditure
    121 5 •WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI) Sen. William Proximire. De-mocrat-Wisconsin. charged yes terday that the United States spends entirely too much on defence because Pentagon planners have 4 grossly exaggerated" the threat from potential enemies. "We have something like 3.000 installations around the world, something like 400 major bases..
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    Lock icon Seeking News Of POWs
    108 5 NORTON. Va Sun (UPI) Attorney Carl McAfee, who visited Moscow In connection with the Gary Powers spy trial, and later when the North Koreans held the Pueblo crew. Is in Europe again this time seeking news of American prisoners of war, his office said yesterday. His
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    Lock icon 40-HOUR HIJACK ENDS IN HAVANA
    200 5 HAVANA, Sun. (Reuter) A Brasilian Caravelle jet, the first plane to be hijacked in 1970. today faced new trouble starting it's engines after its Marathon flight round Latin America. The two-engined plane of the airline Cruzeiro Do Bul set up a world record for the
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    Lock icon Inquest Into Mary Jo's Death Starts Today
    518 5 EDGARTOWN, Mass. Sun. (UPI) A January inquest into a July death brought a Saturday Influx of newsmen and technicians that failed to dent the imperturbable mien of this resort town in its off-season winter lull. The main midwinter occupation of those of its
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    Lock icon FUND CALL TO ASSIST CALLEY
    130 5 COLLINSVILLE. ni. Sun. (UPI) Former Mayor Norman Weber vesterdav announced the start of a campaign t© raise funds for the defence of Lt William l CaLev Jr., charged w:th murder in the alleged massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. "Lt. Calley is a soldier
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    Lock icon FISH STORY
    70 5 PUNTA ARENAS Southern Chile. Sun. <Reuter* Fish are still living In pools on Deception Island, off the coast of Antarctica, where all life was thought to have been destroyed by a yolcano more than a year ago. Three biologists from the University of Chile, the first people to
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    Lock icon Guyana P.M.
    83 5 GEORGETOWN. Guyana. Sun, (Reuter) Guyana's Prime Minister Forbes Burnham announced today plans *o visit India. Pakistan. Zambia and Ethiopia during 1970 which he said was folng to mark a significant deve optnent in the role of nonahgned countries In international affairs. Speak.n* at a press conference. Bumham did
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    Lock icon NIXON PRAISES HOPE'S EFFORTS
    277 5 HOLLYWOOD, Sun. (UPI) President Nixon praised Bob Hope yesterday for encouraging American servicemen overseas to apply for educational benefits under the Gi Bill of Rights. In J serious moment before playing golf with the comedian and with two other entertainment world celebrities. Jimmy Stewart and Fred
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    Lock icon Counterfeit
    80 5 FRAMINGHAM Mass Sun. (UPI> The Secret Service on Saturday arrested six men and seized about U*****,000 in counterfeit money j n a raid on an insurance office. Wayne Holhngsworth Assistant U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. said four of the men were arrested In the Lawrence Sterns Insurance Agency on Hollij
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    Lock icon Park Avenue Bird Chase Successful
    201 5 NEW YORK. (UPI) A rare Asian hornbill led police department employees on a chase along fashionable Park Avenue on Saturday before It was captured with nets on the balcony of a 20th floor Denthouse. Officials of the Central Park Zoo feared that the dark-hued casque
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    Lock icon Miss Muskie
    65 5 WASHINGTON. Sun IUPI) Folk music provided a modern touch to a traditional service yesterday when Ellen Muskie. 19. daughter of Sen. Edmund Muskie. Demo-crat-Maine and Ernest Michael Allen. 23. were married The Rt. Rev. Msgr Ralph Kuehner. Roman Catholic chaplain at American University. officiated at the service In
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      40 5 EASTERN SUN First With Complete Coverage Of Significant World and Local News ALSO Special Features and Columns Backgrounding and Interpreting News In the NEW YEAR We Are Acquiring A Wide New Range of Features ic i Watch For Further Announcements
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    Lock icon INDONESIAN GENERALS
    456 6 rpHE arrest of Generals in Indonesia obviously -I means that there Is some sort of a military shakeup going on in that country without any true reason being revealed. The ostensible reason that some of the Generals want to get former President Sukarno into power appears too far-fetched
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    Lock icon SINO-SOVIET BORDER TALKS
    385 6 VASSILY KUZNETSOV, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister and head of the Russian delegation, has arrived in Peking and is expected to begin the Sino-Soviet border talks today. Reportedly he obtained a new briefing in Moscow but nobody appears to believe that there is any possibility of either agreement
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    Lock icon Tradition-Bound Ethiopia: The Tax-Dodger's Paradise
    787 6  -  By PETER SCHWAB Gemini News Service LONDON, In Addis Ababa, new office buildings and blocks of Hat* spring up. Emperor Haile Selassie is anxious to convince the world that this scene represents the new Ethiopia. But it is only a facade. The interior remains feudalists.
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    Lock icon ONE THING UNDER THE TREE
    749 6  -  By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON, Under the national Christmas tree, there is precious little to rejoice about last year. But at least 1969 has brought us one gift to raise a cheer over, in the unexpected form of an anonymous book called, 'Message From Moscow." As
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    Lock icon THE DUBIOUS '70s: World Communism On The Defensive?
    533 6  -  By K.C. THALER LONDON. (UPI) "Communism hat degenerated info the longest and hardest way to Capitalism. In these cynical words, an aging, life long East European Communist voiced recently his disillusionment over the course applied Communism has taken in the 50 years
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    Lock icon A Tip On Tipping
    420 6  -  By JOHN SIMS PARIS (UPI) After waiting 30 minutes for an almost undnnkable cup of coffee, I left the exact money for the coffee on the table at the sidewalk cafo and walked away. A half block down the boulevard a panting waiter caught up with
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    Lock icon On Wings Of Love-Starved Idiocy
    364 6  -  By LEMMY PINNA KARACHI. UFI Christmas morning I woke to rh e sound of a tribal feud knocking at the front gat«. The feud, I was told, concerned my 19-year-old Kashmiri house-boy who recently went on homeleav# to discover his lass alas, married the swain
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    Lock icon BARBERS
    88 6  -  FLcllcrs." MICHAEL LEOXG. Singapore. Every time I visit a barbershop for a haircut and a shave. I develop boils on my neck and face. Should not barber-shops be inspected regularly by Health Inspectors, as in the case of coffee-shops, to ensure the cleanliness of equipment and towels used on
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  • PICTORICAL SOCIAL ROUND-UP
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      Lock icon GUIDES RECEIVE S'PORE COLOURS
      45 8 CristabeMe W. Alvis, leader of the Singapore guide contingent to the Diamond Jubilee of Guides in Australia receiving the Singapore colours from the President of the Girl Guides' Association, Mrs. Tan Boon Teik, at a ceremony last Tuesday before their departure.
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      Lock icon Jumbo Jet Era Party
      291 8 THE Minister for Foreign Affairs and Lahour. Mr. S, Rajaratnam, signs his name on the cloth scroll where hun- dreds of other wellwishers have put their names. It was to commemorate the first anniversary of the Singapore Toba c e o Employees' Union. A sumptuous dinner
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL TEN DOLLARS ESSAY WINNERS
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      Lock icon A Day In The Fishing Village
      305 9 ONE Saturday morning, my uncle and I decided to go to a fishing village. The fishing village is at Pasir Panjang The village is about ten miles away from my house. We went there by Our own car. we reached Pasir Panjang, the village
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      Lock icon An Evening At S'pore's 'Wonderland'
      576 9 A T PRESENT, there are three amusement parks in Singapore. They are the Great World Park, the New World Park and the Gay World Park. These parks undertake to supply amusements for adults more than for the youths of Singapore. But now chilaren, teenagers and
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      Lock icon My Best Friend
      513 9 "FRIENDS make us happy and cheerful. In gchool and at home. I have many friends. Tnev are all very good and intelligent. Among them there Is a very good friend whom I like best. Her name jg Mary Toh I met her when I was traveling in
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      Lock icon Abolish Prefect System
      662 9 THE prefectorlal board is a body of students who have been given special duties to perform to assist the principal and the teachers in keeping discipline in the school. Prefects are also given authority but not to bully the other students. Even though prefects help a lot
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      Lock icon It's Better To Be Boys Than Girls
      375 9 IN THIS modern civilisation, girls claim equality with boys in nearly all respects. They want to be at equal footing with the boys. When it comes to hard work, where physical strength is concerned, it is then that girls label themselves as the
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      Lock icon Hello, 1970!
      152 9 [)EAR STUDENTS, First of all, let me wish you ill a happy New Year. We hope you have had an enjoyable holiday, climaxing with the festive season of Christmas and New Year. Well the new term for 1970 has just started. And after the month-long holidays, it is
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      Lock icon Ambition
      183 9 A MBITION motivates one to achieve higher aims. A man without an ambition is like a boat without a sail drifting in the vast ocean. There are many kinds of ambition, such as becoming a lawyer, scientist, technician or artist. It directs one to a focus which would help
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      Lock icon APOLLO
      61 9 MOON QUESTION Who'll they worship this Mooncake Festival? The flat of America? WAKA: CHANG EB S FEELINGS Mooncake Festival Is here again. Chang-Er is glad In her abode up there. Offerings abound. Chang-Er eats her fill but the flag outside makes her eyes sore. TOH SEE KIAT. 15. Sec.
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      173 9 Essay writing: Rules to observe All entrant* are requeued to observe the following rules: 1. Each entrant must fill in his/her own writing the entry form appended below in block letters. 2. No entry will be considered without the entry form properly filled up. 3. The entrant must attach his/her
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      74 9 DATELINE: DANGER! W Join Saunders and Altai McWttams GO IN QOOO HEALTH. TROY/1 PLAN TO SPEND THE EVENING WITH WENDRY AND LEE Rcry 9k SS ft I RARJ^ RIGHT NOW I SUSPECT MY LITTLE BROTHER IS BREAKING ALL RECORDS FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR/ ft RJ J4RPJI RR-' 1 IRTRCI *R. RR/
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      22 9 By Jack Tippif k 53 fA "He's roily not dangerous or mean, but' COULD took a i«g if you trip ovor him
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    Lock icon Jap-Made Gloves For Title Fight
    330 10 TOKYO, Sun. (Reuter) World featherweight boxing champion Johnny Famechon of Australia and Japanese challenger Fighting Harada will use Japanese-made six-ounce gloves in their world title bout here on Tuesday. Agreement on the gloves was reached today at a rules meeting supervised by the Japan Boxing
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    Lock icon Australians Name Team v Transvaal
    109 10 JOHANNESBURG. Sun (Reuter) The Australian cricketers, fresh from their 3-1 Test victory over India, launch their three-month South African tour when they clash with North Eastern Transvaal at Pretoria on Tuesday. The Australian team announced today, almost a Test line-up include unorthodox spinner John Gleeson
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    100 10 SYDNEY. Sun (Reuter) Stumos scores on th? second day of the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wa'es ann Queensland being played here: Queensland 263 v NSW seven for 324 (B Francis 126. A Steels 119 not out: I. King 2/65. R Paulsen 2 '99) MELBOURNE:
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    22 10 MOSCOW. Sun. (Reuter) Vladimir Muntyan. 23-year-old international half-back, has been voted the Soviet Union's footballer of the year for 1969.
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    Lock icon BOXING'S BADDEST BOY DIED A HERO
    1289 10 Strange Stories Of Sport (2) The world of sports is full of stories.... but none stranger in this 2nd of four articles by Alan Hart DOXING had always had its ihare of bad boys but there was nobody quite so bad as Al 'Bummy'
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    215 10 Ronnie Pau Wing Hong (H'cap 16) shot a 39-41—80 over the par 68 Keppel course to win the Gold Medal championship with a nett 64. three strokes In front of runner-up Joh Goh (17) who scored 4143—83. nett 67. Two others Alfred Chan and Douggie
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    Lock icon MISS E. LINCOLN, captain of the softball team of the Girls' Sports Club, Jets, receives a trophy for the Pesta Sukan Handicap Knock-out Softball Championships (1969) from Mrs. Chan Chee Seng, at the Golden Lotus on Saturday night. The occasion was the 10th anniversary dinner and dance of the Singapore Softball Association, of which Mr. Chan Chee Seng, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry for Social Affairs, is the patron.
    69 10 MISS E. LINCOLN, captain of the softball team of the Girls' Sports Club, Jets, receives a trophy for the Pesta Sukan Handicap Knock-out Softball Championships (1969) from Mrs. Chan Chee Seng, at the Golden Lotus on Saturday night. The occasion was the 10th anniversary dinner and dance of the Singapore
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    Lock icon Australian-Entered Cessna First Home
    474 10 SYDNEY, Sun. (Reuter) An Australian-entered Cessna 310 plane was first across the finishing line at Sydney's Bankstown Airport today at the end of the 12,-000-mile London-Sydney air race. Second across was a Cessna 421, piloted by Captain TK Tjonteit of Oslo with Erik Sandberg of Oslo
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    Lock icon Triumphant Sheila To Write Book'How To Survive'
    235 10 SYDNEY, Sun. (Reuter) Lone British pilot Sheila Scott, who survived harrowing storms, technical troubles and a forced landing during the London-Sydney air race, triumphantly crossed the finishing line today. "I seem to have been going a long time." she said. Swamped by autograph
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    Lock icon Thomson Leads By A Stroke
    63 10 TAURANGA. New Zealand 'Reuteri Australian Peter Thomson stormed into the lead in second round of the NZ$5 000 (£2.300). Spalding Masters tournament here today. Thomson, who has been holidaying at the nearby beach resort of Mount Maunganul while recovering from a recent hernia operation followed
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    Lock icon Larbawn By Two Lengths
    96 10 SANDOWN. England Sun (Reuter) Top-weight' Larbawn. owned by M.L. Marsh, won the Mildmay Memorial handicap steeplechase run over three miles. five furlongs and 18 yards here yesterday. Larbawn. who carried eleven P° un ds. won the i first orize bv beating .he outsider, the Otter, owned
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    Lock icon Aussie Breaks Decathlon Marks
    72 10 SYDNEY. Sun. (Reuter) Australian champion Geoff Smith broke the British Commonwealth and A"«t cords in winning the New South V\ ales decathlon c. iplonshio here today. Smith accumulated 7.587 points for th e event to better by 136 points tne British Commonwealth record which Ciive s
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    177 10 Walkden Hewitt Triumph PORT ELIZABETH Sun (Renter) South Africa's Pat Walkden beat the Wimbledon singles title-ho'.der Ann Jones of Britain 6 —4- ®—2 in the women's singles finsr at the Eastern Province tennis championships here yesterday At ore stapp in the first set the British girl led 4—2 with her
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    53 10 SAN FRANCISCO. Sun. (Reuter) American John Carlos, the Olympic 2 00 metres bronze medallist, won two events at the all-Ameriean indoor athletics meetings here last night. Carlos won the 300 yards In record t"ne of 31.5 seconds and also took the 60 yards dash in «0 seconds. eQuaJiing
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      Lock icon Support For SA's Planned Tour Of Britain
      156 11 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) England's cricketers are overwhelmingly voting in favour of next summer's planned tour here by the South African cricket team, the Professional Cricketers' A s s 0 ciation said yesterday. Association President Jack Bannister said one third of his 300 members
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      153 11 Hockey Tourney BOMBAY. Sun (Reuter) India (Dark Blues) scored an unimpressive 8-0 win over Argentina after Japan beat Holland 2-1 In the opening matches of the seven-nation hockev tournament here yesterday The Dark Blues, with six Oh-mpie olayerg in their team, were seldom able to blend
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      491 11 Marching For Swansea Skipper FA Cup LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) League feeders Everton and European Fairt Cup holders Newcastle were among the casualties in the English Football Association Cup third round yesterday. And among other surprises in a competition renowned for upset results were the defeats of
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      79 11 CAPETOWN. Sun (Reuter) Bobby Cole of South Africa shot a Anal round of 07 to break the course record and win the Cape classic golf tournament by one stroke it the King David course here yesterday His total of 280 was 12 unde r par
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      344 11 English Football Association Cup Third Round Arsenal 1. Blackpool 1. Aston Villa 1, Charlton 1. Blackburn 0. Swindon 4. Bolton l. Watford 2 Bradford City 2. Tottenham 1 Burnley 3. Wolves 0. Chelsea 3. Birmingham 0. Chester 2. Bristol City 1. Crystal 2. Walsall 0. Gllllngham 1. Newport
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      Lock icon An Army player fails to stop ong Mok Kee of the MSA Sports Club from scoring in the opening game of the MSA Cup invitation basketball tournament match played at the Gay World Stadium on Saturday night. Army won 104-60.
      44 11 An Army player fails to stop on g Mok Kee of the MSA Sports Club from scoring in the opening game of the MSA Cup invitation basketball tournament match played at the Gay World Stadium on Saturday night. Army won 104-60. Sun- sport pix.
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      503 11 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) Wales, who clash with the Springboks on Januarv 24. should field a powerful aide judging by yesterday s Rugby Union trial at Cardiff. The Probamea crushed the 2l-3 to brighten Welsh hopes of victory In the forthcoming international Welsh full-back John
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      656 11 F.NOLlSd DIVISION" THRtC L t A PT« Lutefl Town Orient Bradford City Rochdale Barnaiev J Tornuey United < Br.jmon Donct»t#r Roveri Brjitoi woven B«3riinf i ruIhAfn 13 3 3 16 4 4 B 11 ll H a 13 11 U 10 a 10 4 4 11 7 5
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      131 11 STOCKTON. England. Sun. (Reuter) Denis Nea:e clinched his fourth title win In Ave years when he beat Chester Barnes in the men's s-nges fl"al of the English closed table tennis championships here yesterday Neale settled down after s shakv start to score a comfortable 22-20. 21-16.
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      218 11 LONDON, Sun. fUPI) England and Worcestershire Test Cricketer Tom Graveney left for e visit to Australia yesterday said he was seriously considering making the move permanent. The 42-year-old batsman who played 73 times for England. said he has had a "very good" offer to
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      65 11 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) British student Martyn Corden, 18. achieved the biggest s*"sation in the chest world in recent years last nifht when he defeated former world charv pion Vassily Smyslov. 48. of the Soviet Union. The win. in the ftfth round of the premier tournament of the
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      93 11 EVERBRIGHT ELECTRICAL SERVICE TIL: *****7 Electrical. Plumtsinn Sanitary Contractors. Sales Service Where To Stay STRAND hOTIL Bencoolen Street. Town centre. Quiet, clean, reasonable rates. Alrconditloned rooms, private bath. Bar/ Restaurant Homely services. Tels: *****/*****. APPOINTMENTS APPOINTMENTS NAVAL BASE HOSPITAL APPLICATIONS are invited for the post of State Registered Nurse at
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      1008 11 (CHANNEL 5) PM. 300 Opening Anncts. In all Language* A Morning Star; 320 Woman» World Tamil; 3.55 A Diary of Event# In Singapore This Week Tamil 400 It Happening in Singapore j Tamil; 415 Scarlett Hill Second Sowing; 5.00 Close; 60C Opening Anncts. in all Language; A Monster From Outer
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    606 12 GERMAN MEASLES? "Never heard of it," a lady doctor in the Orchard Road area said when asked if she had placed any orders for a new vaccine to prevent the disease. The measles known as rubella, is very contagious and according to medical reports,
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    Lock icon Long P&O Service Comes To An End
    398 12 THE regular P fir O service between the United Kingdom, Europe and the Far East will come to the end tomorrow after 134 years when the P fir O liner, Chitral, leaves for Europe for the last time. The 14.000 ton Chitral arrives
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    133 12 A NUMBER of full-time one-year courses for women are being organised by the Hai Sing Dewasa Institute Jointly operated by the Adult Education Board and the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. The courses, to be conducted in English and Chinese, are for; bilingual correspondence clerk, accounts
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    50 12 A PIRATE-TAXI driver, Lim Hock Chuan. 29. wa s detained by two membej-s of the public. Mr. Wo 0 Ah Bah and Mr. Fong Fook Hong, after he exposed his private part 5 to a 22-year-old housewife, in a lift In Jalan Gagak Selari Barat late Saturday night.
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    80 12 A 21-year-old youth Wong San Kow. died on arrival at th#» hospital lat«» Saturday night. He suffered from five stab wounds on the abdomen, ear and back. Followine a 999 call from an anonymous caller, police proceeded to Block 2. Tion* Bahru Road and found Wong
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    151 12 A FINE of not exceeding $l,OOO will be imposed on persons guilty of providing false and erroneous information on the length and draught of vesaels using the Port of Singapore Authority wharves. This was stated In a circular by the PSA. The circular said that
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    9 12 THERE were 68 traffic accidents, ten serious yesterday.
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    533 12 So long, Racquel Welch! Auf Wiedersehen, Marlene Deitrich! Singapore has found its own pair of beautiful legs and it belongs to Mr. H. C. Yeo. In the first contest of its kind ever organised anywhere, Mr. Yeo beat six other men to win the titie of Mr.
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    107 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Thre* police officers last night broke up a bottle-and-chair fight between four men at a restaurant In Jalan Brickfields here. Two men involved In the fight arrested. A police spokesman said the officers, one of them. Deputy Superintendent Loh Peng Kong were having
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    100 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The Minister of National and Rural Development. Enche Ghafar bin Babar disclosed here today that he would be calling for a meeting of Mentrl Besars and Chief Ministers for discussions for more effective and expeditious. land, mining and forestry administration. He said that
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      81 12 TOTO DRAW THE number drawn In yesterdays Tot© draw were: 36 8 41 33 42 The additional number drawn was: 9. In the three-circle draw, tne numbers drawn were: 5 3 1. The numbers drawn In the Christmas and New Tear Special Draws were: First Prise. *****1 Second Prue. *****7
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      93 12 Time Tide TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 12 44 a.m. (5 3 ft); 6.40 a.m. <8.7 ft.); 12.48 pm (1.7 ft); 10.10 p.m. (8 0 ft NAVAL DOCKYARD: 102 am (8 3 ft.) 7.49 am. (9 7 ft >; 12.36 pm (2.5 ft.); 10 04 p.m. (9 6 ft.). TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN:
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